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Is 1,770 miles as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about one-fifth as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 7,926.38070 miles.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 7,926.38060 miles at the Equator. The first complete view of Earth's diameter was in a photograph taken from a V-2 rocket launched in 1946 by the United States Army, which reached an altitude of 65 miles.
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